névé

See also: neve, nevé, and ñeve

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French névé, from the Franco-Provençal (Savoyard) term névi (“mass of snow”), from Latin nix, nivis (“snow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neɪˈveɪ/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

névé (plural névés)

1. The firn or snowfield at the head of a glacier.
   • 1913, R. F. Scott, “Monday, December 25”, in chapter XVIII, in Leonard Huxley, editor, Scott's Last Expedition‎^[1], volume I:

     Then we started up a rise, and to our annoyance found ourselves amongst crevasses once more—very hard, smooth névé between high ridges at the edge of crevasses, and therefore very difficult to get foothold to pull the sledges.

Translations

The firn or snowfield at the head of a glacier — see also firn

• Catalan: gelera (ca) f
• Russian: фирн (ru) (firn)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: nevero m, helero m

Further reading

• névé on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Névé in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Even, eevn, even, even-

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French

Etymology

Franco-Provençal névi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ne.ve/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

névé m (plural névés)

1. névé

Descendants

• → English: névé

Further reading

• “névé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.